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No. 395,655. Patented Jan. 1, 1889.

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UNITED STATES FFICEav BENJAMIN I. GREEN, OF ETCI-IETAII, MONTANA TERRITORY.

PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application tiled April 6, 1888.

To all wiz/ont it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN P. GREEN, a citizen ot' the'United States, residingI at Etchetah, in the county ot' Custer and Territory of Montana, have invented certain new and useiul Improvements in Planters; and I do declare the following to be a i'ull, clear, and \e.\' act description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, ret'erence being had to the accompanying drawl ings, and to the letters and figures ot' reiterence marked thereon, which term a part et this specification.

The special object ot' the invention is to make a planter which will drop the seed in hills or drills which shall be in straight lines, so that the space between rows (of three feet apart or less) may be easily worked with a horse and without tearing up any ot' the plants.

Figure l of the drawings is a plan view; Fig. 2, a side elevation, and lFig. a longitudinal vertical section.

In the drawings, A represents the draftbeam, and B B two similar hoppers connected by an intermediate bottom-open chamber, l', into which a single seed-slide, b, tor both hoppers brings alternately one et the seed-cups b2 b2. 1) is a single cover for both hoppers, hinged so as to work in the usual way. By this arrangement I can drill seed at one and a halt' toot apartin the row, and if it is desired to clieck-row at three feet each way one hopper is not used. The slide b is pi voted to the sliding head b3, as is the lever C, which moves the slide D at the bottom of the spout E, and said head is connected by the pivoted yoke b4 with an eccentric, h5, which is loose on the shaft t, but connects with a keyed clutchslide, ZF, on said shat't, so that the latter may or may not operate the slidesl) I).

The shatthlis connected by the crank-disks c c, pivoted bar c, and pivoted guide c2 with asl1alt,f,ot the ground-roller E, so that the latter may actuate the slides b I). The rollersha't't c3 is journaled in the angled frameplates G G, and the scraper H is hung at the rear of the same to keep the surface of roller clean.

Patent No. 395,655, dated January 1, 1889.

Serial No. 269,829. (No model.)

The slidiiighead b3 has a forward prolongation, to which the upper end ot' the lever C is pivoted, while the latter is tulcrumed in the arm c, projecting rearwardly from the spout E. The latter communicates at the top with the chamber B and with the opening d of slide I) by means of the hole e', while the side plates, I I, prevent the escape of seeds too much to one side, as they extend down to or nearly to the bottom ot' the furrow. At thc t'ront end ot' the space between these side plates is arranged the furrow-opener J.

By my invention it will be perceived that the seed is carried from the hoppers to the intermediate chamber, B', down the spout E to its bottom, and then dropped a distance of a few inches directly on the bottom oit furrow, so that it reaches exactly the point wished in a continuons straight line from one end of a row to another. This is veryimportantwhere the rows are only three :feet apart or less, as otherwise itis inipossible to work with. ahorse upon or tearing up a goed many plants.

K is the depth-gage wheel, which is journaled in the lower ends ot' the reversed -V trame L, which sli des vertically in the beamguides M M.

n is a double-armed vertical bar tixed on the top ot the beam A, and provided with the slide-bolt O. The trame I. is placed. in one ot' the notches n, while the grooved bolt O is carried down between the arm n and the frame L, so as to lock said wheel K at the desired altitude. In this way I can very accurately regulate the depth at which the seed is to be planted. By my invention the seed is thus surely put at exactly the right depth, at the precise :required distance apart in the rows, and the rows of plants must necessarily come up in mathematically straight lines, so as to be conveniently worked without injury.

liavilig thus described all that is necessary to afull umlerstandingot my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination,with the seed-slides b D, ot' the vertical lever C, sliding head b3, pivoted yoke b4, eccentric D, shaft ZJ, crankdisks c c, connected by the pivoted bar c', and

or mule between the rows without trampling IOC) the roller-Shaftf, whereby both of Said slides In' testimony whereof I afx my Signature in are operated by the ground-roller, :LS depl'eSenee of two Witnesses. scribed.

n a n TP I. .L 2. The eombnmtmn, wlth the depth-gage bEh] P GREE 5 Wheel, of the V-frmuebemn-gudegthe notched \Vituessesz bar n, and the sliding' leek-belt O, as and for JOSIAH NICHOLS,

the purpose specified. L. C. DEAR. 

